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finding out how to know in advance
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if a mortgage would likely fail.
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And the technique was not to look at credit scores
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but to look at housing locations;
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and to look at the condition of housing in a neighborhood;
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and at the demographics of who lived there.
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And it was crudely racist
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and biased in many, many ways.
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It was explicitly racist about blacks;
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it was explicitly racist about Jews;
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it was explicitly racist about Italians,
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most of all SouthernItalians.